Bizagi Process Management Suite as an Application of the Model Driven Architecture Approach for Developing Information Systems

Abstract

Bizagi business process management is a suite for software development and process automation that implements the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) principles. The capabilities of the suite will be presented through a real case information system developed that represents a business process in a modern corporation; the user access management flow that employees follow in order to gain access into systems. The MDA approach to develop information systems is considered as the biggest shift since the move from Assembler to the first high level programming languages. At the heart of the MDA approach are models which represent the information system developed while the implementation in a certain technology is obtained through model transformation. Following the MDA paradigm, in Bizagi the starting point is the model of the business process. The model is enriched throughout the steps of process automation in order to produce an information system which can be immediately executed. As result an information system which automates the business process is obtained without the need to write any code. Bizagi business process management suite fully implements the MDA approach and principles in building process applications. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n6p475